Brood-frame for beehives.



G. W. BACON.

BROOD FRAME FOR BEEHIVES.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 23,1915.

Patented May 23, 1916.

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GEORGE W. BACON, OF GRAND JUNCTION, COLORADO.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 23, 1616.

Application filed July 23, 1915. Serial No. 41,548.

1'10 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE W. BACON, acitizen of the United States, resident of Grand Junction, in the countyof Mesa and State of Colorado, have made a certain new and usefulInvention in Brood-Frames for Beehives; and I declare the following tobe a full, clear, and exact description of the same, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use theinvention, reference being had to the ac companying drawings, and toletters or fig arcs of reference marked thereon, which form a part ofthis specification.

Figure 1 is a front View of the invention as applied showing the hive.Fig. 2 is an end View of several brood frames having my inventionapplied thereto, the supporting strip of the hive being shown in dottedlines. Fig. 3 is a section on the line 33, Fig. 1. Fig. 4: is afragmentary side view partly in section, showing one of the wire hooksin engagement with a staple form device.

The object of the invention is to provide an improvement in brood framesfor bee hives, designed to simplify their structure and facilitate theiroperation, and it consists in the novel construction and combination ofparts, as hereinafter set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, the numeral 2, designates the outer frameor casing of a hive, and 3, a brood-frame designed to be locatedtherein, and removable therefrom. Each brood-frame is rectangular inform and is provided with a rectangular sheet of wax 4:, which isimpressed with a hexagonal conformation, such as is commonly used inproviding foundation sheets or foundations, as they are called. Thesefoundations are used by the bees in their Work of forming the wax comb,and in order to provide for the proper attachment of the wax sheet inthe frame, and to secure certain advantages of operation of thebrood-frame, the upper bar 5, of the frame, is made with a right angleseat 6, extending along its bot tom and side, this channel beingprovided with a rectangular strip 7, designed, when secured in the seat6, to press upon the edge of a wax foundation sheet located between theedge of the channel and the side of the stri A fter the strip is placedupon the edge of the wax sheet, it is connected thereto and to the bar5, through suitable perforations therein, by small tacks or headed pins8.

the frame be large,

one of these headed pins is driven the wax sheet near each end, and if athird pin is used in the middle of the frame. The end bars 9, and thelower or bottom bar 12, of the frame, are of usual form, as is in factthe upper bar, except that it is modified to avoid undue pres sure, andto operate in connection with offset devices, whereby the brood framesare designed to be easily and exactly located in the caslng andrelatively placed with the accu racy required; and whereby the removalor reintroduction of a brood frame is readily effected in the verticalplane.

The strip. 7 is not designed to be forcibly pressed against the side ofthe channel or seat 6, in such wise as to mash or break the edge of thewax sheet; but is of suflicient thickness to engage the surface of thewax closely, and when the headed pins 8 are secured in place the waxsheet is held securely. In this connection the tacks and strip areprevented from becoming loose by means of thick buttons 14, which arepivoted to the side of the bar 5 by suitable screws and, when in pendantor turned down position, engage the heads of the pins 8, which arelocated below the pivot screws of the buttons, and hold the pins andstrip in position. These buttons are designed also to serve as braces orinterposed means for keeping the brood-frames the proper distance apart.This distance is one-quarter of an inch, and the buttons of each frameare made with that thickness, and parallel-faced, and are designed eachto be long enough to extend from its pivotal point in the bar 5 toengage the strip 7, but not below the bottom of the latter. In this wayeach brood-frame is separated from the adjacent one, the frame at oneend of the hive being separated from the casing by a special offset orprojection attached to the latter. The ends of the frame are alsoprovided with hanger offsets projecting a fraction of an inch andengaging supporting strips 7 of a width of about one-quarter of an inch,in order to separate the frames from the walls of the hive, theseofisets being horizontal staple-form devices 15, the prongs of which areseated in the broad part of the bar 5 and in the ends thereof. Thesestaples extend transversely of the ends of the bars 5, and each one ismade with an upturned loop or bend 16, exactly in the middle of itstransverse bar, which is accurately placed in the driving so Usuallythrough that the center of gravity of the frame will be in the verticalplane of the bend 16. By means of two small wire hooks, such as areindicated at 17 any brood-frame of this kind can be readily lifted inthe path of its own plane out of the hive, and in this way unnecessarydisturbance of the other frames or of the bees avoided.

I claim:

1. In a brood-frame for bee hives, an upper bar cut away along its lowerlateral portion to form a right angle channel, a rectangular stripseated in said channel, a wax foundation sheet having its edge betweenthe bar and the strip, and a plurality of parallelfaced separationbuttons pivoted to and projecting from the longitudinal face of the barand engaging said strip.

Copies of this 2. In a brood-frame for bee hives, an upper bar cut awayalong its lower lateral-portion to form a right angle channel, arectangular strip seated in said channel, a wax foundation sheet havingits edge between the bar and strip, two or more headed pins extendingthrough the strip and sheet into the bar, and two or more parallel-facedseparation buttons pivoted to and projecting from the longitudinal faceof the bar and engaging the heads of the pins.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE W. BACON.

Witnesses:

EDGAR HULL, J. P. FITZPATRICK.

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